Here’s another amazing gift from Steve Rogers. As I mentioned in earlier posts, Steve worked for American Recordings, which meant he got a level of access that most of us would love to get. In this one, Steve recorded a good amount of Long Fin Kille’s set, then some clips of the Ramones and DEVO. Sweet.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 and Canopus ADVC300
Enhanced (degrain) in adobe premiere elements/neat video
R.I.P. Conrad Lant, better known as Cronos.
Scheduled video programming is pushed to tomorrow.
Man, I cannot believe I am writing this. The official Venom facebook page has announced Cronos’ passing. I had not even heard that he was ill or anything. I was hoping to catch them at a fest sometime in the near future.
Venom (along with Slayer) was the gateway to punk rock for me. I bought the Welcome to hell LP back in 1982/83 time frame and was… confused. The band sounded like they were each playing a different song on the first track, but holy shit was it heavy. It didn’t help that Neat records’ original pressing of the album skipped into the first track. I didn’t hear the real start of the song for years! They really grew on me and the Black Metal album is an all-time classic.
I only got to see them once- at the Crest Theater in 1985, but I was excited to be backstage and partying with Slayer and Exodus that I only watched a couple songs.
Years later, I received a Venom interview on Sky tv in a videotape trade and it was hilarious! These guys aren’t serious, they were a bunch of goofs! That made me love the band even more.
It seems that this video is not on youtube. It is from the year before the well-circulated 1997 set, and this one is a 2 camera shot. I suspected that someone just mislabeled the date, but no. It is really a different show.
Recorded by: ?
DVD rip and prep for upload by Shayne
I need to make this quick- I didn’t realize I had to be somewhere this early. Here is one that my friend Marcus Winfree taped for today’s On This Date in History. The snare was overpowering the mix so I rebalanced everything else to make it sound better. Oddly there is no documentation of this show so you get a generic tour shirt image.
Recorded by: Marcus Winfree
Transfer by: Shayne stacy
Equipment used: Sony PCM-R500 and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
Rebalance in Izotope Rx8: Vocal +5.5, Bass +6, Guitar +4.5
Here’s another one from Gary Shurtleff’s collection of master recordings (fromthenosebleeds on YT). This has to be the darkest lighting I have ever seen for a band in an arena setting. No fault of Gary’s- the camerawork is good for an arena vid and it sounds great for the time frame. I did my best brightening it up and the denoise worked really well on this one.
If nothing else, just play it as an audio track- the audio is that good.
And look at that young Mike IX! AWWW
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Dell workstation
Lighting and denoise in Adobe Premiere Elements and Neat Video
In our search for better audio for Steve Rogers’ videos, we found that there was a nice sounding soundboard tape of the Crowes from this date. I asked the taper for the files and he sent them over for synch. Well, it appears that the band played 2 sets that night and the board tape is not this show. Damn, we tried.
Edit: Steve let me know that this is the soundcheck. Mystery Solved.
Recorded by: Steve Rogers
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into Workstation
Enhance (degrain) in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
Here is another video from Gary Shurtleff (youtube channel fromthenosebleeds), and I think that this is one of the better Pantera show I transferred for him. Great sound (for an arena 1 camera thing) and excellent camera work. This is from a co-headline with White Zombie, a band I will never understand. I tried.
Recorded by: Gary Shurtleff
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Sony DCR-TRV340 firewire into workstation
Degrain with Adobe Premiere Elements/neat video
Any help identifying these bands & the venue would be appreciated. This is one of 2 tapes with what appear to be parts of this show. JUNI BRAVO ARCHIVE: I bought a bunch of live VHS tapes of Ebay about 6 months ago. I bought them mainly for a Bad Religion Multicam from 1988 that was uncirculated, but I got a while box of VHS tapes. The tapes were intriguing enough for me to try to find out who Juni is- it turns out that she was a Video archivist from the mid- to late-80s based in San Diego & texas. She followed the Exploited on tour in 1988 and produced the “Anarchy in the USA” VHS tape for them. She passed away a couple of years ago and (unbeknownst to me) some guy was selling her stuff off. I decided to post the stuff that was OK to post publicly to be sure Juni got her due, and to let fans of the band see this stuff- there is some gold in here. I also NEED YOUR HELP with some of this stuff. The tapes were poorly labeled so I don’t know who some of the bands are, and I don’t know most of the venues. Any help identifying stuff is appreciated.
Recorded by: Shayne Stacy
time for a bonus post- the Patreon Voter’s Choice for the week! There are actually 2 winners this week, but one of the tapes snapped and needs surgery, so that one will go up as soon as I get time.
I traded with a guy in Phoenix who video’d quite a few shows in the area- this is one of them. I can’t remember his name, but he only identified himself by his first name when corresponding. Wish I kept my tape lists.
Recorded by: ? Michael? David?
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Panasonic AG-1980 — Datavideo TBC1000 – ATI TV Wonder 600 USB Adapter — Virtualdub
Enhanced in Adobe Premiere Elements/Neat Video
I still have a few more of these KALX tapes ready, so let’s put these up on Mondays for the time being.
The Loudmouths were active from 1993-2001, put out a couple of albums and a bunch of 7″s, then amicably parted ways. It’s hard to tell what all of the members went on to do, but Dulcinea (Midnite Snaxxx) played guitar for them.
Recorded by: Rick Sylvain
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
I pulled this for today’s On This Date in History for 2 reasons- for one, I got it from the taper Steve Hanson (who I think passed away) and I don’t think a lot of his tapes made it out in circulation.. and two, as a memorial to the Steve in the band.
I rated this tape really badly on my list- VG- usually means “unlistenable garbage”, but it only needed a good EQ to get the harsh high end out of there. The beginning of the tape is a little odd- low levels and not as crisp. It gets better later on.
Recorded by: Steve Hanson
Transfer by: Shayne Stacy
Equipment used: Nakamichi Dragon and M-Audio Audiophile 2496 card
EQ in Sony Soundforge 10
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